Human Rights and Technology Sales: How Corporations Can Avoid Assisting Repressive Regimes

In this white paper, the Electronic Frontier Foundation calls on corporations, especially those that sell surveillance and filtering tools, to avoid assisting repressive regimes by increasing their transparency. The authors suggest a “know your customer” strategy to ensure that corporations do not sell equipment to governments that will use it to violate citizens’ human rights. Examples of business deals which led to human rights violations are included as lessons learned.